Excerpt from Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 12: April 1919 It is important that the work of collecting historical material in regard to the part taken by Illinois in the great world war, 1914 1918, be done immediately, before important local material be lost or destroyed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.